After surfing the net on some of my favourite websites, I came across an article about a Nottingham based Journalist/Photographer, Alan Lodge, who was arrested whilst taking pictures of armed police in the St Anns area of Nottingham. This I find worrying especially as this person was causing no harm to anyone. It also acts as a wake up call to others out there involved in the media.
It continues to confirm my thoughts about the system that we're living in. We're not such a 'free' and 'democratic' society that the Government purports, especially when 'crap arrests' like this are taking place.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/
In my own experience of unfair treatment by the police, I remember years ago attending the Anti Poll Tax protests in London and being 'angry' about the way the police were handling protestors;making ridiculous arrersts.
Indeed using crowd control strategies that forced protestors to become trapped and confined in one area, with hardly any prospect of getting out of such a confined space and hence becoming caught up in violence and brutality.
I thought this behaviour of the police, was practice that was mainly confined to a Thatcherite regime. Apparently not, it seems.
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Excellent Barnze! Where do you find'em? You could have hours of fun playing with your coffees!
Whoops! That was supposed to go on your coffee post!! :(
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